On Dreams

[SlightlyJames]

I was talking with some people just now about memorable dreams we've had that were weird or stayed with us in some way. I figured I'd post some of mine here to see if perhaps anyone has had similar experiences.

There was one I had a couple of times as a child that's stuck with me for some reason for all these years where there was "something" awful about to happen that I desperately had to warn people about. I was frantically trying to alert my nearby group of oblivious friends but no sooner than I had began speaking, my voice suddenly tailed off into nothingness. I tried all the harder to let them know about the oncoming "something" but to no avail. I forget where it went to after that.

I also vividly remember a few times having dreams things drastically shifted. Like suddenly being all too aware of my room stretching out and expanding until it was almost unending and I was only an insignificant part of it, feeling like things that were usually an arms length away were now so far far removed I could barely comprehend their existence. Conversely, situations where my focus would shift on to something inconsequential like a cup that grew and became bloated and all-consuming, as if there was nothing in the world that mattered outside of this cup. I've never been able to lose track of how overwhelmed I felt by how much it fucked with my perception of scale.

There was one I had on two successive Christmas' where I would be minding my own business in my bed when E.T. would burst into my room, notice me and scream at me (like that scene where Elliott finds him in the bushes, the exact same scream) and I would scream back until I passed out, then wake up in the exact same position, just lying there, unaware of the fact that I had been dreaming, scared to move.

While on the subject of where dreaming bleeds into consciousness, the topic of Sleep Paralysis naturally came up. I recalled a few instances where it had happened for me in my old place where I'd been unable to move and as if to justify that, my brain created terrifying scenarios where I would be paralysed by fear. Unknown entities moving around in my room, a ringing phone that answered itself and started talking to me. The kind of thing that would leave a sinking feeling in your stomach for days.

I remember there being some other things that came to mind in bits and pieces but those were just vague connections, I don't feel able to string them together into a narrative with words. That's the nature of dreams I suppose.

[War Daddy]

Sleep paralysis is the worst fucking thing ever. I cannot express how I much I chose death over it.

How do you feel about astral projection, not take to away from the original topic.

[SlightlyJames]

^ Don't think I've ever experienced Astral Projection, you wanna tell me a little about it?

[War Daddy]

^ Don't think I've ever experienced Astral Projection, you wanna tell me a little about it?

It's basically an out of body experience. However, people have found ways to practice their control over it, thus giving it the name astral projection. You are literally allowing/forcing your soul out of your body and going into the next plane of existence and then when you're done you just wake up. The side effects is fucking up and allowing negative energy into you which, in turn, cause sleep paralysis. Or worse, you could let demons in(i find it hard to believe though).

It's a lot to explain but you normally would hear about one if you talk about the other.

[PorkChop]

There was one I had on two successive Christmas' where I would be minding my own business in my bed when E.T. would burst into my room, notice me and scream at me (like that scene where Elliott finds him in the bushes, the exact same scream) and I would scream back until I passed out, then wake up in the exact same position, just lying there, unaware of the fact that I had been dreaming, scared to move.

This sounds hilariously terrifying.

I very rarely remember my dreams unless they're incredibly unusual. I've never had sleep paralysis either but I know several people who have. I'd like to experience it once.

[Kein]

I had a re-occurring dream where I was being chased by this guy.


I also had a fairly re-occurring dream where I was running (but always caught) and had to fight someone who strongly resembled this guy.


I dunno. Those two come to mind because of how often they happend, eventually they just stopped.

[EmperorWu]

Hot Dog

I had a dream once, my body wasn't there but I was if that makes sense. Anyway I was in a volcano and in the center was a puppy sitting on a small outcrop just above the lava. I had a zoomed in view, so I could see it in detail even though I was far away. I had to watch as the lava slowly rose, while the puppy yelped and jumped around while looking at me, sometimes it just sat there and looked into my eyes while it cried pathetic small whines, which was even worse. I knew it was begging me to save it, just as if a person were reaching out to you and yelling for help. The dream seemed to last an eternity while I watched helplessly, knowing I couldn't reach it and the lava continued to rise. I felt the unmerciful heat grow along with my guilt and desperation as each second, that seemed like an hour, passed. I think I woke up at the last second, before the horrific scene reached it's conclusion. I have to admit I woke up in tears crying like a little bitch. I was a teenager, and it's silly now, but the emotions I went through stuck with me for a while.

Cabins In the Woods

I had a reoccurring dream for years. I had it many times but it was always months apart, yet it was always the exact same dream. I would wake up in the middle of the night in a cabin. The skies were clear but abnormally dark. The cabin was bare, with no doors or frames in the windows and it offered no feeling of safety. I would immediately, upon the second of waking, have a feeling of unease and dread. Then I would hear it... the most terrifying cackle. Something you couldn't imagine, something no movie ever did justice. A cackle so horrifying only the darkest recesses of your mind, in your deepest nightmares, could produce. I don't think I ever saw it directly, but I knew it was out there in the sky coming for me. To call it a witch would be almost humorous. Most of us think of Halloween witches with warts, or corny ones in movies. But this thing was more than that. It was a witch, but it was just as much a gnarled, caustic, demon like creature. And it wanted me... it was going to do things to me even my worst nightmares couldn't show me, but I knew, I knew.

After a few minutes of toying with me, trying to make me lose my mind in terror for it's own amusement it would come. The cabin would begin to shake as if it were going to explode, the wood would crack deafeningly. Some small subconscious part of me would muster any courage I had and in a split second I would bolt for the door frame and out of the cabin. Outside the sky was just ask black as indoors, and everything around me besides the dirt road ahead and the cabin behind was dense impenetrable forest. Not that I stood long enough to look around, I ran as fast as my legs could go. I would run for what was probably 10-15 minutes, the witch hot on my heels. Sometimes, as it cackled, it would seem like I was losing it. Other times it sounded like it was close enough to reach out and touch me. Either way I never looked back, and I never slowed down. There were no forks on the dirt road, or fields to run into, just dark impenetrable forest, and dark road ahead of me.

Finally when I was reaching the end of the road I could start making out a larger shadow in the darkness. It was another cabin and I would bolt straight in just as fast as I bolted out of the other, with no concern for what might be waiting inside. Then the scene would repeat itself. This time I was already awake, but it was the same thing. A few seconds of silence, dread and unease. Then the cackle, the shaking and cracking of wood. I would collapse against the back wall and curl up breathing more heavily than I ever had before, and again at the last second I could bare to wait, I would dash back out the front door. The witch followed in the sky behind me, I never knew if it was on a broom or what it fully looked like. I never knew if it could catch me at any second if it wanted to. Maybe it was fun for it, to finally get me when I had given up hope and had resigned myself to my fate. I never did, any of the times I had this dream. I would just run back and forth from cabin to cabin as the same scene played out in an endless loop.

I don't know how I managed to run so long, only resting for a few fleeting seconds inside each cabin. But I ran for hours and dawn never came, would it even have mattered? Maybe it was the adrenaline, the shear power of the survival instinct and fear of what would happen to me if I was caught, but no matter how much my legs burned and my lungs gasped I never stopped running. I just ran for hours and hours until, mercifully I would finally wake up and be freed from it's enclosing snare. At least until that assured day when the witch would come to visit me again in my dreams.

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I kind of naturally told those in a story format, even though that wasn't my intention coming in. But yes those were real dreams, and yes they happened almost 100% exactly like that. So I then decided to get cute, and add titles. I got one or two more I kind of remember if there is any interest.

I had a ton of dreams where my teeth would fall out, like all the time. I'm sure there's someone out there who can tell me what that's supposed to mean.

[Kein]

The amount of stamina you have in your dreams reminded me of a simple shitty fact about my dreams.

When I need to fight I feel weak, I feel like my hits are not strong, almost like I am throwing the dead weight of my arm at someone instead of really hitting them. I also feel pain in my dreams, it is a dull and clouded pain, but it is definitely pain and it fucking sucks knowing I can feel pain in my dreams knowing wtf can happen in a dream/nightmare. I also have unlimited stamina in my dreams though, for the most part.

I also know some people I have never met before.

I also dream about someone I am in love with sometimes, and they usually look different, unless they are someone I am currently pursuing.

[Circled Square]

I'm always being chased in my dreams, or about to have sex, then I wake up. Lucid dreaming is very interesting...but I can't really do it for very long. Once I start noticing the fact I'm in that state, I get excited lol and wake up.

[Hanley!]

I had a ton of dreams where my teeth would fall out, like all the time. I'm sure there's someone out there who can tell me what that's supposed to mean.

That's a really common recurring dream. I used to get it a lot too. It's basically a vanity dream. It means you're self-conscious about your appearance. So it might crop up on occasion if you've been feeling like you're having a bad hair week, or if you have to speak or perform in front of a bunch of people.

Yet I never get the cool recurring dreams, like flying. Apparently that's the most common one out there, but I've never had a flying dream.

I've never had sleep paralysis but it sounds like the worst thing. I'd be absolutely terrified in that situation. My sympathy goes out to those of you who have experienced sleep paralysis. It sounds horrific.

Lucid dreaming is something that interests me, but I've never been able to do it. Although apparently @Everlong does it all the time without even trying, the bastard.

[PorkChop]

When I need to fight I feel weak, I feel like my hits are not strong, almost like I am throwing the dead weight of my arm at someone instead of really hitting them.

I get that too. When I throw a punch it feels like I'm underwater or something. They're always really slow.